Calcutta: A speeding truck smashed the head of a man who had got stuck in the divider railings on Central Avenue while trying to squeeze through a gap between the rods. Bappa Pal, 27, was an Assam resident.

Calcutta: A youth duped an elderly man out of Rs 2.5 lakh with the bait of a dollar for every Rs 20. Jodhpur Park resident Ashish Kumar Ghosh, 72, later found that the bag of dollars the conman had given him had only newspapers stuffed inside.